Charles B. Rangel

The man trying to bring the Republican Party back from the brink of irrelevance in Connecticut's second-largest city is a 42-year-old college professor who wrote in Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president.

Jonathan Wharton was elected chairman of the New Haven Republicans in March, months after a municipal election in which the party failed to win a single seat on the 30-member board of alders and didn't field a mayoral candidate.

"In this town it is tough, I will not deny that," Wharton said, of leading the GOP in a city that last elected a Republican mayor in 1951 and where Democrats outnumbered Republicans 51,934 to 3,102 a week before Election Day. "It is very...

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